Empowered to Submit: Pentecostal Women in Nairobi

Neo-Pentecostalism is characterized as offering freedoms and empowerment for women, a limited role in navigating patriarchy, or strengthening patriarchal control. In Nairobi, Kenya, neo-Pentecostalism is concerned with a morality built around an idealized model of the nuclear family in which a wife...

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Published in:The journal of religion & society
Authors: Deacon, Gregory (Author) ; Parsitau, Damaris Seleina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Creighton University 2017
In: The journal of religion & society
Further subjects:B Women
B single
B Patriarchy
B African Christianity
B Pentecostal
B Gender
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Summary:Neo-Pentecostalism is characterized as offering freedoms and empowerment for women, a limited role in navigating patriarchy, or strengthening patriarchal control. In Nairobi, Kenya, neo-Pentecostalism is concerned with a morality built around an idealized model of the nuclear family in which a wife is subservient to her husband. It might appear that women's ministries empower female members to challenge structures of control, but such challenges are resisted and women are expected only to survive within existing structures. Single-women are expected to live amongst the prejudices of society and dissuaded from any attempt to alter the societal structures that leave them marginalized.
ISSN:1522-5658
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10504/109164